Amazing Songs & Other Delights #59 The Through Mountains & Valleys aka The Epilepsy edition airs Monday, 12th , 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).Monday February 12th is International Epilepsy Day. I have two types of epilepsy, photosensitive – in my case affected both by light, and certain types of sounds – and atonic (my muscles suddenly lose contraction and I fall or things slip from my hands). For many people with epilepsy the condition is like traversing mountains and Valleys. In my case that happens mostly with photosensitive epilepsy. Through mountains and valleys is also, literally, what me and my friend Matt do. Me when walking up and down the more, or less, urbanized areas of Porto – Porto is at the end of a mountain range. Matt in Los Angeles and its sorrpunding areas. Like Laurel Canyon where many musicians lived in the 60s and 70s. Among them, Neil Young who has epilepsy. The songs selected for the programme comprise those from musicians with epilepsy as well as those from bands and artists that lived at Laurel Canyon. To me, Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box gives the idea of the sudden, stop, motion, electrical discharges of photosensitive epilepsy which is why it is on the tracklist. The colour of epilepsy is purple-lavender, hence Prince’s Purple Rain. Prince had epilepsy until he was seven years old, a fwct he mentions in The Sacrifice of Victor.
Trackist:
01 – Antony & The Johnsons – Epilepsy is Dancing
02 – Joni Mitchell – Michael From Mountains
03 – Chris Knox – Grand Mal
04 – The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)
05 – Spandau Ballet – Gold (HD remastered)
06 – The Mothers of Invention – Anywhere The Wind Blows
07 – The Streets – Dry Your Eyes
08 – Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box
09 – Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
10 – Joy Division – Transmission
11 – Prince – Purple Rain
12 – Elton John – Bennie And The Jets
13 – The Olympic Symphonium – Thanks a Lot
14 – Jimmy Reed – Too Much
15 – Black Light White Light – Epilepsy
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